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Graphic Policy’s Top Comic Picks this Week!

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Savage Avengers #1

Wednesdays (and Tuesdays) are new comic book day! Each week hundreds of comics are released, and that can be pretty daunting to go over and choose what to buy. That’s where we come in

Each week our contributors choose what they can’t wait to read this week or just sounds interesting. In other words, this is what we’re looking forward to and think you should be taking a look at!

Find out what folks think below, and what comics you should be looking out for this week.

A Town Called Terror #2 (Image Comics) – The first issue was an intriguing mystery mixed with some horror that wasn’t what we were expecting. We want to see where this goes as a son returns home after his father forces him to.

Break Out #2 (Dark Horse) – The first issue introduced us to a world where mysterious cubes kidnap people under the age of 18 and the group of kids that are going to break those taken out.

Duo #1 (DC Comics/Milestone) – Milestone’s Earth-M expands with new and original characters and Duo kicks that off!

History Comics: Stonewall Riots (First Second) – A great opportunity and way to learn about this historic and important event.

I Hate This Place #1 (Image Comics) – A mysterious force that attracts ghosts, aliens, and other supernatural beings is in a farm house inherited by two individuals.

Immortal X-Men #2 (Marvel) – The first issue shook up the Quiet Council and we want to see where this series goes to changing the status-quo.

Kaiju Score: Steal from the Gods #2 (AfterShock) – The popcorn heist series continues as a new team must figure out how to steal from a kaiju while also not get killed by a rival gang.

LEGO Ninjago Garmadon #2 (Image Comics/Skybound) – The first issue was fantastic and feels like it captures the “LEGO feel” while not overdoing. Story is first here, it just happens to be in the world of Ninjago!

Life Zero #4 (Ablaze) – Turn your brain off zombie killing action.

Savage Avengers #1 (Marvel) – Conan’s on the run from a Deathlok hunting him down. There’s a Terminator aspect to it all but it’s the team itself, both characters and creative, that has us excited.

Shaolin Cowboy: Cruel to Kin #1 (Dark Horse) – Geof Darrow’s latest volume of the popular series. We’re always excited to check out where he takes it and the amazing art.

X-Men Red #2 (Marvel) – How would this series stand out from the other “X” titles? We found out in the first issue which planted a nice flag and teased the direction it was going.

Review: Break Out #1

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Break Out #1

Sci-fi and horror do a great job of examining our world. Beyond the surface level storytelling, there’s often deeper meaning exploring society, politics, and so much more. Break Out #1 delivers a new sci-fi story about a world where mysterious alien cubes have appeared and regularly abduct individuals under the age of 21 to put them in a jail on their ship. The concept is definitely an interesting one but as presented, it’s underlying themes can be debated pushing the comic beyond simple pop entertainment, to worthy of deeper dissection.

Written by Zack Kaplan, Break Out #1 presents a world that in many ways have given up. With adults not impacted, they’ve moved on and settled on a philosophy of just living with the current status-quo. Due to that, over 200,000 kids have been abducted by the mysterious cubes. The story focuses in on a group who have a plan to break out one kid from a local cube.

A world that has given up on trying and moved on accepting the results of their actions. Those actions screw over the next generation. That attitude and real life actions can be applied to so many things, the environment, COVID, economy, threats of violence in schools. Really, it feels like the attitude of adults to kids in general. I got mine, whatever. The looming threat of that abduction doesn’t narrow things down as it again applies to any of those topics where the kids have been thrown under the bus. And what’s interesting is that Kaplan is turning to kids for solutions. Guns, the environment, and even COVID to some extent, kids are rising up to make the voices heard to create a better world for themselves. They haven’t given up and have a fighting spirit. That’s what Kaplan taps into here.

Wilton Santos handles the art with color by Jason Wordie and lettering by Jim Campbell. The art is interesting in that it presents a world that’s very much like ours now. There’s something slightly off. You can see the changes but at the same time it’s all very normal. The kids thankfully look like kids. Each is full of personality in their style and body language. You get a sense of who they are from the visuals as much as what they say. Overall, this feels like our world but something slightly ominous is present… so exactly like our world.

Break Out #1 is a fantastic start to the series that can be enjoyed for its jailbreak story and appreciated for its underlying exploration of our current times. It does what so many good sci-fi stories do, entertain and examine our world.

Story: Zack Kaplan Art: Wilton Santos
Color: Jason Wordie Letterer: Jim Campbell
Story: 8.5 Art: 8.1 Overall: 8.25 Recommendation: Buy

Dark Horse provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review

Purchase: comiXology/Kindle – Zeus Comics – TFAW

Graphic Policy’s Top Comic Picks this Week!

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HAKIMS ODYSSEY GN BOOK 02 FROM TURKEY TO GREECE

Wednesdays (and Tuesdays) are new comic book day! Each week hundreds of comics are released, and that can be pretty daunting to go over and choose what to buy. That’s where we come in

Each week our contributors choose what they can’t wait to read this week or just sounds interesting. In other words, this is what we’re looking forward to and think you should be taking a look at!

Find out what folks think below, and what comics you should be looking out for this week.

A Town Called Terror #1 (Image Comics) – A new horror series from Steve Niles and Szymon Kudranski? Yes please!

Break Out #1 (Dark Horse Comics) – Massive cube spaceships from another dimension materialize over cities and routinely abduct teenager to be held in their floating prisons.

Days of Sand (SelfMadeHero) – A tale, inspired by real-life stories of courage and perseverance during the Dust Bowl of 1930s United States, 1937.

Elektra #100 (Marvel) – Ann Nocenti returning to Elektra? Yeah, we’re down with it.

Flashpoint Beyond #0 (DC Comics) – A return to Flashpoint? Yeah, we’re suckers enough for the concept.

Ghost in You: A Reckless Book (Image Comics) – We love the Reckless detective/noir series of graphic novels. A new one always has us excited. If you love the genre, it’s a must.

G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero 40th Anniversary Special (IDW Publishing) – 22 artists do their spin on the classic “silent issue”.

Hakim’s Odyssey Book 2 From Turkey to Greece (Graphic Mundi) – Continuing the true story of a Syrian refugee.

Image 30th Anniversary Anthology (Image Comics) – Image is celebrating 30 years and we want to see what the publisher has in store this year to do so.

Junction (Titan Comics) – When a missing child, Lucas Jones, reappears after an absence of 12 years, the brief moment of joy is clouded by mystery. How is he still 11 years old?

Kaiju Score: Steal From the Gods #1 (AfterShock) – The first volume was so much fun mixing a classic heist story with kaiju, we’re hoping for a repeat.

Life Zero #3 (Ablaze) – An action film with zombies. There’s not much more to it.

The Sandman Universe: Nightmare Country #1 (DC Comics/DC Black Label) – James Tynion IV playing in this sandbox? Hells yes!

The Stretcher Bearers (Dead Reckoning) – Max is in France during the Great War and doesn’t expect to witness the horrors of war he witnesses or build the friendships he does.

Vanity #1 (Scout Comics/Black Caravan) – The legendary Blood Countess Elizabeth Bathory is dead, and gravediggers are assigned to relocate her corpse. But who was she really? Was she a monster or a victim?

Wrong Earth: Fame & Fortune #1 (Ahoy Comics) – Mark Russell taking on this world? Yeah, we’re pumped for the satire and laughs.

X-Men ’92: House of XCII #1 (Marvel) – Return to the classic animated series with a new twist.